The Sir Bobby Robson Collection

Bobby Robson began his playing career with Fulham, making his debut for the London club in a First Division clash with Sheffield Wednesday in 1950. He spent six years at Craven Cottage before joining West Bromwich Albion in a £25,000 deal, where he topped the Baggies scoring charts in the 1957–58 season with 24 goals before being appointed captain ahead of the 1960-61 campaign.

He rejoined Fulham in 1962 for £20,000, where he spent a further five years, before leaving England to become player-manager at North America Soccer League outfit Vancouver Royals.

Robson made his international debut in November 1957 against France, marking the occasion in fine style by scoring twice in a 4-0 victory. He was a regular at the 1958 World Cup and was also part of the 1962 World Cup squad, where an ankle injury kept him out of most of the competition. In total he made 20 appearances for his country, scoring four times.

Following a short period as player-manager of Vancouver Royals, Robson returned to England in January 1968 to take up the managerial reins at his former club Fulham, but he was unable to save the Londoners from relegation to the Second Division and was dismissed in November the same year.

Undeterred by the unsavoury experience, Robson took charge of Ipswich in 1969 and it was with the Suffolk side that he would enjoy his first success as a manager, with FA Cup victory in 1978 followed by UEFA Cup glory in 1981. He spent 13 years in total at Portman Road before accepting an offer from the Football Association to take charge of England in July 1982.

Robson endured a difficult start to his reign, as England failed to qualify for the 1984 European Championship finals, but bounced back to lead England to the 1986 World Cup, where Maradona put paid to their participation in the tournament at the quarter-final stage.

A disappointing group stage exit at Euro 88 was followed by World Cup heartbreak in 1990, when Robson came so close to leading England to the final only to see his team suffer an agonising penalty shoot-out defeat against West Germany in the semi-finals.

Robson returned to club management following the World Cup to take charge of PSV Eindhoven and led them to successive Dutch league titles in 1990–91 and 1991–92.

Sporting Lisbon was Robson's next destination but he spent less than two years there before he was dismissed in December 1994, despite the club sitting at the top of the Portuguese League. He promptly pitched up at rivals Porto and led his new club to victory over Sporting in the Portuguese Cup final, as well as two successive League titles in 1994–95 and 1995–96, before he was enticed to Spain to take charge of Barcelona.

Robson snapped up a young Brazilian striker by the name of Ronaldo and led the Catalan giants to the Spanish Super Cup, Copa Del Rey and European Cup-Winners' Cup in a single season, but remarkably it wasn't enough to keep him in a job.

A return to PSV followed in 1998 before he was offered the chance to return to England with his home-town club Newcastle in 1999, where he guided them to a fourth-place finish in the 2001–02 season and the following campaign led the club to third spot. Despite an impressive record he was dismissed by the Magpies in August 2004 - and it would prove to be his last managerial position.

He died in July 2009 following a lengthy, and extremely brave, battle against cancer.